Re: [Gendergap] Introducing the Wikimedia Resource Center

2017-02-17 Thread Peter Southwood
Hi Maria, I was referring to the Wikimedia projects, but it really applies anywhere that someone may need the information. It makes a lot of difference if it is easy to find for anyone who may need it. Cheers, Peter From: Gendergap [mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-17 Thread Jackie Koerner
Oh, I do certainly think this should be a user's choice and one they could turn on or off. What do you all think about the whole thought? I have been also reflecting on what others wrote about getting at the root of the issue instead of addressing symptoms only. The trouble with making

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-17 Thread Jackie Koerner
Anne, I do think you misinterpreted what I was suggesting and perhaps the project. The artificial intelligence tool is currently being trained using volunteers to rank messages, but once launched it would operate and only need humans for maintenance, I imagine. -- Jackie Koerner > On Feb 12,

[Gendergap] Intro

2017-02-17 Thread Nelson Tayengwa
Hie everyone, my name is Nelson I'm from Zimbabwe Africa .I am a 21 year old male. I'm very happy to join this list.I hope my contributions are going to helpful. Thank you. Sent from my Windows Phone ___ Gendergap mailing list

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-17 Thread Jackie Koerner
Hello all, What's everyone's thoughts of filtering email to a repository if the email contains certain words? This could be using tools currently being honed with the Detox project: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox/Resources This way, they could be viewed or not viewed by the

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-17 Thread Carol Moore dc
Having had a thousand nasty and threatening messages from someone who used about 40 different emails, I still wouldn't like moderation. Is there a way to retroactively check emails? I guess the headers are it, and I always sent those (they were all yahoo mail). On 2/12/2017 2:25 PM, Risker

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls

2017-02-17 Thread Carol Moore dc
Good point... On 2/9/2017 1:01 PM, JJ Marr wrote: It's not our moral role as Wikipedians and it's not the role of the Wikimedia foundation to take a deeply investigative role of harassment. We can block harassers when proof is brought to us, but finding them is difficult and is a task that

[Gendergap] URGENT. Looking for developers (online bias detection tool for Art+Feminism edit-a-thon 2017)

2017-02-17 Thread Marta Delatte
Dear all, I am writing you on behalf of my group (www.liquendatalab.com) . During the last months we have been working on building an online bias detection tool in order to help fight systemic bias in Wikipedia, but unfortuntaley we have lost our developer before

Re: [Gendergap] Introducing the Wikimedia Resource Center

2017-02-17 Thread Isla Haddow-Flood
This is great Maria! Might be helpful to put a button or link on the home page of Meta so that it can be found easily by most people, even if they forget what it is called ;-) warmest Isla On 10 February 2017 at 19:21, Maria Cruz wrote: > Hi Peter, > I'm not sure I

Re: [Gendergap] Feminism and Museums

2017-02-17 Thread Art + Feminism
Hello Lucy, Are you familiar with our Art + Feminism campaign? Since 2014 we've gathered in more than 280 events around the world to teach women how to contribute content on art and feminism on Wikipedia. You can find more information about the initiative here . If